6.46 Incomplete enum
Types

You can define an enum
tag without specifying its possible values. This results in an incomplete type, much like what you get if you write struct foo
without describing the elements. A later declaration that does specify the possible values completes the type.

You can't allocate variables or storage using the type while it is incomplete. However, you can work with pointers to that type.

This extension may not be very useful, but it makes the handling of enum
more consistent with the way struct
and union
are handled.